VA officials are still considering where to locate the new Knoxville Community Based Outpatient Clinic – or CBOC. The process was put on hold with a recent moratorium on VA leases. That moratorium has now been lifted, according to Judith Johnson-Mekota, Director of the VA Central Iowa Healthcare System. The lease is going through contracting procedures now, Johnson-Mekota says, but in terms of a time frame of the announcement of the award of the contract, she says she can only speculate, but she hopes the announcement will be made soon.